Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 4.11.1997

Amendment of the Commission's Equal Access to Justice Rules

This document amends the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission's procedural rules on eligibility under the equal Access to Justice Act by adding a paragraph requiring that the net worth and number of employees of an applicant shall be aggregated with those of its affiliates, unless to do so would be unfair and contrary to the purposes of the Equal Access to Justice Act. This amendment will minimize extra unnecessary collateral litigation and bring the Commission into conformity with the corresponding rule adopted by most other federal agencies. This document also changes the shortened reference to the Equal Access to Justice Act used in this Part to read, as it is commonly referred to, ``EAJA.''